Hansal Mehta’s whodunit The Buckingham Murders, headlined by Kareena Kapoor Khan, now has an OTT release date. The film released in theatres on September 13 and wrapped up with a worldwide collection of about Rs 16 crore. It will start streaming on Netflix from November 8.
Talking about the film’s poor performance in theatres, Kareena in an earlier interview to Miss Malini had said “Each film has a different audience, especially in today’s time. The audience that’s going to watch Singham is obviously not the audience for The Buckingham Murders, it was more English, cerebral, an indie kind of movie. But also, Jaane Jaan on Netflix audience is different than the audience that is going to watch Crew. You have to understand how to balance that out, and that, I think, I have learnt to do.”
Director of the film, Hansal had said in an interaction with The Hindustan Times that there’s too much focus on numbers these days that it becomes reductive. “My time and effort is ultimately nobody’s business. Also, it’s the producers who have invested the money in the project, and yet people talk about it as if it’s their money. The problem lies in the fact that people don’t see the film for what it does to them, or for its story and characters. They are so interested in the numbers that it has become reductive,” he said.
The Buckingham Murders also stars Ash Tandon, Ranveer Brar, and Keith Allen. It is written by Aseem Arrora, Kashyap Kapoor, and Raghav Raj Kakker and produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ektaa R Kapoor, and first-time producer Kareena.